Joi Ito's Web: Yahoo getting ready to kick Google off portal?. It's amazing to me to see how Google has managed to overtake Yahoo in the search business. Goes to show that technology can beat raw human power. What has surprised me is that Yahoo has been so slow to react. I've noticed for the last year how much better it is. Of course, MSN waits to rear its head in the search wars

Goes to show there is so much fundamental technology left to do with the mass of data that is the Internet